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Others have already mentioned the metabolism thing being a myth but there's something else to consider. My personal experience and professional experience have lead me to believe that MOST people will do better with fewer, larger meals compared to several smaller meals, largely due to satiety. For sake of comparison lets…

I think this is something people likely develop over time. My general opinion is that people think they need this more than they need this but that could be my biases at play.

You should check out Shredded by Science Radio. =)

I like the idea of biking to and from work -- seems like it makes this a requirement in a sense, once you get into the habit of it.

Great stuff

Moving this up

That's a great method. It's also awesome that you're in a place where you train everyday now! It sure sounds like the method you chose worked quite well for you.

I should also add, if anyone has any questions about this, feel free to ask.

If you are looking for whey protein for general purposes I would check out PEScience. They make great tasting whey/casein blends and the calorie/macro content is pretty good. IMO if you get 23-25g/protein at ~110-130 cals that's pretty solid. Regarding your original post I can't see a reason to add glutamine to whey…

hiya! Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it =)

1) For general population 27% for a female is quite likely considered healthy although to my knowledge I'm not sure if there's ever been any official standards that use body-fat %. 2) All methods of body fat analysis have a high degree of error associated with them, some more than others.…

Satiety definitely has a high degree of individual variability. That being said, the white potato does quite well for many people. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/15701207_A_Satiety_Index_of_common_foods

^^ None of you touched your chest, didn't count ^^

Don't hesitate to reach out. Just keep in mind that I work with a very wide range of strength levels and some of my clients quite literally don't even lift, and there's nothing wrong with that. I only mention this so everyone is aware that you don't need to be of a certain strength level in order to benefit. That being…

LOL Also, Alan Aragon regularly refers to my group/company name as Beat, Stain, Confess LMAO

Check the thread linked by psulemon and get on a structured program please.

Fortunately there's a gigantic continuum of food selections between "keto" and "eat whatever I want". In my opinion, there's a good probability that you just need to modify your food choices to improve satiety without necessarily going on a ketogenic diet. I feel like we are discussing the endpoints here and excluding the…

^ nice work!

I think it's somewhat foolish to completely disregard genetics, it's just that we can't do anything about our genetics. But to say they don't play any role is not accurate, IMO. Just for one of many examples, differences in rates of weight gain in overfeeding trials seem pretty suggestive that people have varying responses…

@Gallowmere1984 @Hornsby Regarding abs and bodyfat % -- I'll be doing a post on this in my facebook group this summer when I lean out more to talk about bodyfat% and abs, mainly for fun but also to illustrate exactly what Gallowmere is saying. Just for reference, the photo I have in my profile is about 16-18% bodyfat and…

It's important to remain hydrated, however it doesn't necessarily need to come through plain water.

It should be pretty clear that it is an analogy. You are directly claiming multiple times in this thread that you have to have experienced steroid use to have any opinion whatsoever on steroids.

I think you are possibly misunderstanding the value of resistance training outside of it's effects in the short term. Resistance training in the long term will cause you to have a greater amount of skeletal muscle at the end of the diet (when you are done losing weight) and skeletal muscle is more metabolically active than…

No I have not used steroids. I did have some caffeine today though, I hope I'll be ok. Does your oncologist have to have cancer in order for you to consider her opinion?

Things constantly change because: 1) Media reports on research and it's often media outlets distributing sound-bite conclusions to the public. Often erroneously. 2) Evaluating research properly needs to consider study strengths and weaknesses along with considering the entirety of evidence available on the topic rather…

Wow.

See here regarding my previous post please: http://weightology.net/weightologyweekly/index.php/free-content/free-content/volume-1-issue-4-the-pitfalls-of-body-fat-measurement-parts-3-and-4-bod-pod-and-bioelectrical-impedance-bia/the-pitfalls-of-bodyfat-measurement-part-4-bioelectrical-impedance-bia/

Home body-fat estimation scales are not accurate for measuring trends either due to how high the error rates are and how dependent they are on hydration status. And so they actually are not a good device to use to measure trends even if you use the same scale.

I wouldn't modify something like starting strength to use machines since SS is fundamentally designed to rapidly build strength at specific barbell lifts, and one of the main features of some of these lifts (like the squat for example) is that it incorporates a very high number of total muscle groups. This makes it very…

So first of all please do not take this as medical advice nor is this meant to be taken over the advice you were given from your PT. If I were going to resistance train using freeweights and I had hypermobility, I would be careful to monitor joint positions typically at end-ranges of ROM on lifts. Example -- if you had…